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While waiting for someone in a coffee shop, I heard people at the next table talking: "I wonder where the prisoner threw that finger?" "Didn't he eat it?" I realized that they were talking about my brother's case, but what I couldn't bear was that they used such a frivolous tone. My younger brother Natsuki Niiyama was a budding piano performer who played popular music. His sudden death has been "publicized" by various media for more than a month, because now is the media's "material dry period" - a period at the end of the year and the beginning of the year when there are few big events to hype. At this time, a case like my brother's happened, which naturally attracted people's attention. In the past year, Natsuki had no musical activities, which made his fans and staff around him worried. However, he was killed just after his comeback performance. Naturally, the media could not let go of this explosive news.

"What do you want?" Hearing the chef ask, the mysterious man wearing light brown sunglasses just muttered in a low voice while pointing at the counter with one hand. "I've kept you waiting. Sea urchin, salted salmon roe, scallops, crab sauce, and white shrimp!" The sushi chef energetically announced the names of the dishes and placed the freshly made sushi neatly in front of the mysterious man. Each piece of sushi comes in two pieces. But the man only ate one of each kind, and neither took away nor touched the other. Time passed by and the sushi was slowly drying out. The man stared intently at the tea cup in his hand, seemingly unaware that the sushi chef was looking at him from time to time. Gradually, the sushi chef's face turned red, his nostrils dilated, and his thick eyebrows furrowed into an inverted figure.